2015 (1) TMI 619

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....espondent. ORDER The Court : This writ challenges the adjudication order of the Commissioner of Customs (Port), Kolkata dated 21st July 2014. The challenge to this order is made by a Customs Clearing House Agent, now known as a Customs House Broker. 2. The primary ground of attack is that the writ petitioner was not issued a show cause notice. 3. The other ground is that ther....

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....h of its duty in unloading a part of the goods and transporting the rest from the anchorage to Kolkata. They relied on a guarantee furnished by the importer, which bears the writ petitioner's signature. 5. According to Mr. Choudhury, learned Advocate for the petitioner, the guarantee was of the importer only. His client had only the responsibility of unloading the goods in Kolkata. There w....

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....of the writ petitioner allegedly met the customs officials, there was no correspondence on record making a complaint that the adjudication process was continuing without issuance of a show cause notice. 8. Hence prima facie I come to the finding that issuance of the show cause notice had been expressly or impliedly waived by the writ petitioner. 9. If that is the situation then the....

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....issioner, it would be at liberty to do so. 12. To enable the writ petitioner to approach the Tribunal and seek interim orders there, no coercive steps should be taken by the respondents for recovery of the penalty of Rs. 1 lakh from the writ petitioner till 11th September 2014 or until further orders in this behalf are passed by the Tribunal, whichever is earlier. If an application for sta....